Listener Questions: Blue Banter Miscellanies

1. Fun mystery question

 

2. What is one thing you'd like to see "reformed" in the RPCNA (whether an official position held by the church or just something that is prevalent and unspoken)? 

 

3. What is Sheol and what is Abraham's Bosom? Where do people go when they die? Does that differ from the OT to NT? 

 

4. How do you respond to criticism as a pastor, specifically about your preaching (not constructive feedback). 

 

5. How do you respond to someone who says that you have to take David's writings with a grain of salt. I've heard this come up a few times recently. Usually you hear the objections go something like, "David may have been called a man after God's own heart, but he also lived very inconsistently with scripture (murder, adultery, polygamy, etc..). He also writes passages that seem to contradict other portions of scripture (probably a reference to imprecatory psalms), and while he laments, his theology isn't always correct because it's an expression of his grief, etc... 

 

6. Theological mystery question